An abecedarian poem, per today’s prompt: https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eighteen-9/.
Day 18
National Poetry Writing Month 2022, Day 18
My Day 18 poem, based on the prompt at https://www.napowrimo.net/day-eighteen-8/.
National Poetry Writing Month 2020, Day 18
The napowrimo.net prompt for day 18 is to ‘write an ode to life’s small pleasures.’ Continue reading
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #18 (pt. 2)
Here is my Day 18 poem using the napowrimo.net prompt: Write an elegy in which the abstraction of sadness is communicated not through abstract words, but physical detail. Most of this poem is inspired by what I assume was an inadvertent selfie my father took with his phone a few months before he died.
National Poetry Writing Month 2019 Day #18 (pt. 1)
Here is my poem for Day 18 using the POETRYisEVERYTHING prompt: If you had to have one word tattooed on your forehead, which word would you choose? Include that word in a poem three times; try making it the third word of every third line in a poem 12 lines or longer.
I could not think of a word I would want on my forehead—not least of all because I would not want that word to limit how anyone might see me. And if I could think of one, it would either be in teeny-tiny letters in the middle of an eyebrow, or in invisible ink. For the purposes of this poem, I went with the invisible ink variant…
National Poetry Writing Month 2018, Day 18
The Napowrimo.net prompt for Day 18 was easy to follow. The poem I used for my line-by-line backwards response was ‘Ophelia’ from Janée J. Baugher’s book Coördinates of Yes.
National Poetry Writing Month 2017, Day 18
My day 18 poem for National Poetry Writing Month uses the prompt from Napowrimo.net—to write a poem incorporating neologisms, or made-up words. Having recently done that in a couple of poems, I wasn’t feeling particularly enthusiastic about this one—but I dug out a couple from years back (the oldest dating back to 1989 or 1990), and went from there… Continue reading
Ordinary Average Thoughts 